Composers: Keith Richards, Steve Jordan
& Charley
Drayton Recording date: March-September 1992 Recording locations: The Site, San Rafael, California;
Studio 900, Master Sound Astoria, New York Giant
Recording Studios & The Hit Factory, New York
City, USA Producers: Keith Richards, Steve Jordan & Waddy
Wachtel Chief
engineer: Don Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve
Jordan Bass: Charley
Drayton Electric guitars: Keith Richards & Waddy Wachtel Lead vocal: Keith Richards Background vocals: Keith Richards, Waddy Wachtel, Steve Jordan,
Bernard Fowler &
Babi Floyd Clavinet: Ivan
Neville Percussion: Steve Jordan Rattlesnake: Keith Richards
It's
just as wicked as it seems
To just run out of dreams
The better of two evils, baby
It's one time too much
Baby, how can I say
What's in my heart, what's in my heart?
Come a long way, well since you beat it up (beat it
up, beat it up)
It's wicked as it seems, yeah
Why don't you get, get all over me?
Why don't you get, get all over me? Yeah
Just a two way street but now it goes one way
And now for me there's no way out (no way out)
One time
Why don't you get, get all over me?
It's wicked as it seems, yeah, it's playtime but it's far too late
It's going too hard on, hard on it, hard on it - what you're, what
you're going to give
It's not enough, it's not enough for me
So I soften the blow
So the bruises don't show
I've got the expertise
No broken necks, mm no broken hearts
Well we used your deck, all I did was play the cards
And now the check
Now I find
It's not enough, it's not enough for me
What you want to give
It's not enough, it's not enough for me, yeah
It's wicked as it seems, yeah
Why don't you get, yeah, get all over me?
Mm yeah, one time
Why don't you get, get all over me?
Why don't you get?
It's easy getting in
Why don't you get, get all over me? But
it's a hard way out, babe
Why don't you get, get all over me?
Why don't you get?
Ohh (...)
Why don't you get, get all over me?
Mmm, it's one
Why don't you get, get all over me? Why
don't you get?
Temperature down, babe
Why don't you get, get all over me? Why
don't you get?
TrackTalk
We
tried all kinds of shakers and rattles. We spent a day trying
rattling all kinds of different things that didn't work. I
happened to have a walking stick from New Mexico which is a
whole rattlesnake. The handle is it's head; the tip of the stick
is the rattle. And that was the thing that worked.
- Keith Richards, 1992
Wicked
As It Seems is certainly a cousin of Love Is Strong.
In fact maybe a little closer related than that!... Also,
time-wise they're pretty much on the same level.
